| Posted by rverboom, 09-30-2010, 08:39 AM | |
Hi all,
The nice thing about cloud hosting is the possibility to size up your server when I need it.
I am looking for a hosting offering that gives me good performance, and does not ask me how much Mhz of gigabytes I need...
And if Digg finds me, they automatically create a farm to handle each request.
But if the site is only visited by Google... you get the picture.
Payment per transfer bytes, CPU cycles, or something else.
I was hoping cloud hosting would be the answer, but after reading the posts I realize it is not.
Is there another offering that gives me guarantied performance for my website?
Thanks in advance.
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| Posted by rverboom, 09-30-2010, 09:36 AM | |
I have found out that I am looking for is auto scaling.
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| Posted by eming, 09-30-2010, 09:54 AM | |
yup - some cloud's out there has auto-scaling as part of their offering. Typically you'd want a setup that says: "if your server uses XX% resources for YY mins then please add ZZ resources to it until it is below XX% again.
You'd also want to make sure the system has an upper limit so you would not be a victim to financial ddos attacks.
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| Posted by rverboom, 09-30-2010, 10:17 AM | |
I am lauching a SAAS offering.
This could be a hit or a miss.
A slow or crashing site because of high popularity, could result in a miss.
But taking the safe route and getting a dedicated (or large VPS) server could result in a financial miss.
I can't wait until it is as easy as the utilities (water, electricity).
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| Posted by Winky, 10-19-2010, 07:58 PM | |
Cloud is pretty ideal for SaaS hosting. A large portion of our customers are SaaS vendors, and they are able to scale their resources as their application grows.
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| Posted by ca-uk, 10-19-2010, 08:51 PM | |
Why not design for scale-out - you can then make use of on-demand additional nodes if your offering proves successful.
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| Posted by rverboom, 10-20-2010, 05:13 AM | |
I have found clouad hosting (elastichosts.com) that offers easy "scale-up" (thank you wikipedia).
The first step will be a separate database server.
They offer an api to start servers, so that is good.
Thank you very much for your replies.
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